Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cristina Haraba reacts as she dines with strangers at Bacari in Los Angeles. (Etienne Laurent / For The Times) When David Brown ...

ST. LOUIS – From Singapore to Switzerland, St. Louis has joined a list of 120 other international and country-wide cities taking part in the dining and friend-finding app, Timeleft. Every Wednesday ...

Finding new friends as an adult is a challenging, awkward undertaking anywhere. But some Minnesota transplants will tell you that it can be particularly difficult to start fresh in the Twin Cities.

San Francisco — A sticker on a wall in Lisbon caught Katya Gratcheva’s attention last fall: “No dating or networking. Just breakfast.” It led the married 52-year-old, tired of the transactional ...

Despite the fact that I moved to NYCunder the impression New Yorkers were blunt, rude, and would not only reject my neighborly sidewalk wave but push me into a pile of garbage and rats for even ...

The hustle and bustle of city life leaves little room for socializing with strict routines to survive the day-to-day. As we approach the new year, many are looking to shake things up, meet new people, ...

AMSTERDAM – “I’m here for Timeleft?” I ask the first staff member I see at the Amsterdam restaurant. This is my second dinner, but I am still a bit shy to admit that I do not know who I am meeting. I ...

Last night, at more than 1,600 restaurants in 325-plus cities around the globe, approximately 20,000 people gathered for dinner with complete strangers. It’s what the creator of Timeleft—a French app ...

When David Brown moved from Chicago to Los Angeles this summer, one of the first things he did was download an app that aims to "fight big-city loneliness." The 35-year-old sales director had seen an ...